Lydia Luk When Lydia Luk agreed to do her first PrideSpeak at age 19, she thought she was going to talk to a class of 30 students. Instead, she found herself facing a group of 300. Not yet completely o...
The Vancouver theatre company that was threatened with a protest by US religious extremists over its staging of the controversial play, The Laramie Project, may have to close its doors due to declining audiences. And, that could happen as s...
BC's Gay and Lesbian Business Association (GLBA) has established a new scholarship fund for students actively involved in and contributing to the gay community. Three $2,000 Leadership Opportunity Unity Diversity (LOUD) scholarships will be...
More than six months after Ross Magill was brutally murdered in a bloody attack at his Yonge and St Clair area home police are appealing to members of Toronto's gay community and a mysterious "person of interest" for information.
In a stunning about-face Tracey Sandilands, Pride Toronto's new executive director, says she wants to withdraw a series of seemingly benign comments she made to Xtra in December. She says this paper is out to get Pride and that her organization will...
In a recent cabaret performance an anonymous diva extraordinaire exclaimed that she wouldn't go see Medea because there wasn't any singing or dancing. Ordinarily I would take a lighthearted comment of this kind with a grain of salt and relegate it to the annals of fabulous quips. However, in the ca...
The spate of bars closed for licence suspensions in Ottawa has attracted the ire of some, especially after two bars in Kanata were briefly closed. But recent licence suspensions at popular gay watering holes Centretown Pub (CP) and Edge are not related to a recent crackdown on drunk c...
In Malta, gay and trans people organize Pink Sundays, piggybacking on existing cultural traditions around food and fraternizing. It's a social endeavour meant to bring Maltese queers together to share their experiences. Nearly 10,000 km away, gay Cubans rally around the National Instit...
A student fights back after he is forbidden from distributing condoms at his high school. A professor works to improve the lives of sex workers. A couple starts a gay rugby team. Capital Xtra honours them all with the announcement of their nominations f...
After such spell-binding masterpieces as Distant Voices, Still Lives and A Long Day Closes, British film director Terence Davies again returns to the Liverpool of his childhood with his first-ever documentary, Of Time and the City. The following is ...
American Apparel says it will continue to carry and defend Butt magazine and its right to freedom of expression, despite one West Vancouver mother's complaint about the gay magazine's allegedly prominent placement — and the city fine the store received as a result. "Butt...
Organ donations in Ontario have dropped sharply in the year since Health Canada imposed stricter rules on organ donations from gay men. According to Gary Levy, the director of Canada’s largest organ transplant program at Toronto&rsquo...
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